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Four skiers were severely injured, including one in critical condition, when a gondola fell from a cable car system in the Austrian town of Ötz on Tuesday, police and the operator said. A tree had apparently fallen onto the cable of the Acherkogelbahn. The critically injured skier was flown to hospital in Innsbruck, a spokesman for the cable car company said. The injured were two men and two teenagers from the same family. The gondola fell into the snow from a height of around 7 metres. The cable car, which is almost 3 kilometres long, transports skiers from the valley to around 2,000 metres a…

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